"Former presidential candidate Newt Gingrich strongly endorsed Mitt Romney and said the former Massachusetts governor “is a solid conservative,” during an appearance Sunday on CBS’ “Face the Nation.”"Mitt Romney is a solid conservative," Gingrich told host Bob Schieffer right out of the gate. "I think you have to come down to what's the choice this November, and the choice is the most radical president in American history and a failed president at the economy and somebody who has a solid record on jobs and who in fact, on basic principles is a conservative." -- Newt Gingrich, May, 2012
Opening what could be a make-or-break campaign to win South Carolina's Republican presidential primary, Newt Gingrich defended his criticism of Mitt Romney's role as an investment banker in corporate buyouts that led to job losses.
"Criticizing specific actions in specific places is not being anti-free enterprise," the former House Speaker told a crowd that packed a banquet hall here in upstate South Carolina on Wednesday, rejecting Romney's suggestion that questioning his record as chief executive of Bain Capital was tantamount to attacking free enterprise.
"And crony capitalism, where people pay each other off at the expense of the rest of the country, is not free enterprise," Gingrich said. "And raising questions about that is not wrong."
I guess we could play dueling quotes, but we both know the Gingrich despises Romney. Why stick up for someone every recognizes is a weak candidate foisted on you by the GOP-E and a huge money advantage?